six
Norah awoke with a start. Her body was in agony. Sweat poured from her brow and a slow ache pounded from her temples to her toes. Yellow light was streaming through the windows now. She must have slept for hours after her wolf tired, but she did not feel rested. She felt heavy and in pain.
Lukyan rose above her. “Norah, honey, it’s okay. I’m here.”
She tried to speak to him, to tell him that she was hurting, but her body’s anguish made it impossible. Her hands moved of their own volition to his chest. She pulled him to her, mindless of why or how. Instinct pushed her actions, and instinct told her that somehow Lukyan could stop this awful agony.
“I know, baby. I know you are hurting. It’s your heat. You need me inside you. It’s the only thing that will give you relief.” Lukyan pushed the covers off them and moved his lithe body over hers. He moved down her body and settled his wide shoulders between her legs. Pushing her knees wide, he moved his mouth to her core and inhaled deeply before parting her slick folds with his tongue. A jolt of pleasure shot through her and the pain lessened a bit. He flicked his tongue over her nub and again the pain lessened. After a third quick lick, Norah pulled at his hair pulling him over her.
“Need you,” she panted.
He crawled up her body and settled his hips between her legs. His erection rubbed at her entrance causing her hips to buck. “Please, Lukyan. I can’t —”
He must have known what she needed because in one swift move he thrust into her tight passage, filling her with his thick shaft. Slowly he pulled out, allowing the tip to rest at her entrance before quickly pushing inside her once again.
“Yes,” she cried. With each stroke of his body, her aches ebbed until finally, her body experienced only pleasure. “Please, Lukyan. This is what I need. Please.”
“This is yours, baby. Only yours. Forever.” He dipped his head and nipped her neck as he drove into her with punishing thrusts.
“I need—” she panted as she raked her nails down his back.
“Tell me what you need, Norah. Do you need to come? Does your tight little passage want me deeper and harder? Tell me what you need and I’ll do it.”
“I need you to bite me. Now.”
Lukyan’s hips increased their pace as he dropped his mouth back to her neck. “Here, baby? Is this where you want it?” He nipped the left side of her neck. “Or do you want it here?” He slid his mouth to the base of her neck and nipped at the top of her shoulder. “Or here?” His mouth dropped to her breast. She arched her back and pushed the soft mound in his face.
Lukyan nibbled at the outer curve of her flesh causing her nails to once again dig into his back. “Yeah, this is what you want, isn’t it, baby?”
“Please.” She wrapped her arms around his head and held his mouth to her chest. Lukyan pumped inside her and pressure began to build. “Now Lukyan, I need it now!”
Lukyan settled his mouth on the top curve of her left breast and bit down hard enough to break the skin. The bite sent electric pulses straight from her breast to her core. Digging her heels deep into Lukyan’s thighs, Norah rode the waves of pleasure as they built. Lukyan held her tight as he pumped deep into her canal.
“Come for me, baby. Come for me. Let me feel that tight little body of yours grip me like a fist.” Wave after wave of electricity raced through Norah, and soon her body was pulsing with pleasure.
“Oh, god, you’re so tight.” Lukyan’s muscles tightened beneath Norah’s grip as he pumped hard into her. He threw back his head and howled as he shot streams of hot seed into her channel.
Lukyan collapsed on Norah and she adjusted her legs so that they wrapped tightly around his waist. Both of them were silent as they worked to catch their breath. After a while, he raised to his elbows and looked into her eyes. “You are amazing.” He leaned down and kissed her sweetly. Norah opened her mouth to him. His tongue dipped inside, tangling with hers. She moaned into his mouth. His kisses were a drug and she was an addict. Reluctantly, he pulled away.
“Are you feeling okay? Hurting?”
She shook her head no. She had awoken in such pain, but now she felt only pleasure. He shifted higher and his shaft moved inside her, causing her to tighten. He closed his eyes as if savoring the feeling, and Norah tightened again around his body. He smiled. “You’re a vixen, mate.”
He looked down at her breast and bent his head. Gently he licked the bite he had left there. “How did you know?”
“Know what?” She raised her head and watched him lave her skin.
“Know that to complete the mating cycle I would need to leave a mate’s mark on your body.”
Norah was confused. “A mate’s mark?”
“Yes, our mating ritual was not complete until I left the mark. Now that you are a shifter, you will not scar except in very specific circumstances. One of those is the mate’s mark. It is my way of marking you as my own. My mate. My Norah.” He bent again and kissed the mark. Norah could already feel the broken skin beginning to heal.
“I didn’t know. I just —” she hesitated. How did she tell him that she simply needed him to be rough, to leave his imprint on her body? “I just wanted it. Something inside me needed you to do it.”
His face softened and he smiled at her. “Don’t you know, Norah? I will do anything for you.”
Lukyan held Norah’s hand in his. It had been difficult, but he eventually found the strength to roll off his mate and lie by her side. He had not been prepared for the intensity of sex with her. Being inside his mate was like no other experience he’d ever had before. He would have happily laid on top of her until she was squirming with need for him again. He had only slid out of her slick folds when he realized that they would have another two days of her moving between contentment and extreme pain. The heat’s hold on a female was strong. Soon she would need him again, and he would be ready. Until then, he would give her time to rest. The past ten hours had been hard on her body and he would not add to that.
